"Today, I want to share a bit more detail about the growing Surface family of products and Surface with Windows 8 Pro, specifically around pricing. In January, Surface with Windows 8 Pro will be available in two versions and pricing will start at $899." Stefan Constantine noted on Twitter: "For the price of a Surface Pro ($899), you could buy a Nexus 4 ($349), Nexus 7 ($299), and a Chromebook ($249). Do the math." No matter how hard people are going to shout the Surface Pro is an ultrabook competitor, people will compare it to an iPad.

Both for people who are bad at math. >$1k for an 11" tablet with a keyboard. I could buy a PC, buy internet access, run it as an RDP target, buy a Nexus10 and bt keyboard, and have a better tablet and a better PC, with full use of Windows on both whenever I want ... and pay for my internet access for a couple of years to boot. Oh joy.